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<ownershipDocument>

    <schemaVersion>X0306</schemaVersion>

    <documentType>4/A</documentType>

    <periodOfReport>2022-11-28</periodOfReport>

    <dateOfOriginalSubmission>2022-11-29</dateOfOriginalSubmission>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000889348</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>CPI AEROSTRUCTURES INC</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>CVU</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001122798</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>STINSON TERRY DEAN</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>91 HEARTLAND BLVD.</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2></rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>EDGEWOOD</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>NY</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>11717</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>1</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>0</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <nonDerivativeTable>
        <nonDerivativeHolding>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>189502</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F1"/>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeHolding>
    </nonDerivativeTable>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">This amount reflects a correction of the total shares reported in the Form 4 filed on November 29, 2022, due to an administrative error in the Form 4 filed on January 3, 2017. The total amount of shares reported on all subsequent Form 4's filed on or after January 3, 2017, until this corrective Form 4/A, must be disregarded as incorrect. For the avoidance of doubt, the transactions reported in all Form 4's from January 3, 2017 until today were correct; the issue only pertained to the total number of shares reported on Table I, Item 5.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>Terry Dean Stinson</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2023-01-12</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
